PROLOGUE:

Mygeeto, Outer Rim. 1,089 days after Battle of Geonosis.

ARC Trooper Captain RC-0001, also known as Tracyn, was definitely not having a good day. He had been planning Zero Squad's exit from the GAR for months now, thanks to the Intel he had been getting from his old training sergeant Wad'e Tay'haii. This was to be their final mission for the Republic before they deserted to the safety of Mandalore. He had it all planned out, and had discussed some of it with his brothers, all of whom were onboard with the plan. His Wookiee friend Tarfful had even managed to get his custom Kom'rk Class Fighter, the Talyn, stashed on the planet for a quick escape when the time came. However his quick and clean escape plans were shattered as he answered his holo-communicator, the image of the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine appearing in stark blue. "Execute Order sixty-six." This was definitely not what he had been expecting, however that was what he got. As soon as he heard those words his white and red helmeted head snapped toward his charge.

Jedi Knight Arya Kess, a young Twi'lek with deep red skin and inquisitive golden eyes. A young Twi'lek they were now supposed to execute as a traitor to the Republic. Tracyn glanced at the forty clone troopers surrounding him and his brothers as well as Arya and the massive furred form of Tarfful. He had no way of warning either of them before the blaster bolts began flying, so he had to hope they were quick enough to follow the Wrecker's lead.

"There's no shabla way I'm letting anyone execute our General." Blitz growled on the squad's private channel. Tracyn, Jester and Ghost all agreed with their brother and began preparing to defend Arya. The other clones all unslung their DC-15 blaster rifles as subtly as they could to try and take out their former General. The Wreckers were not about to give them that chance. It took Tracyn less than a second to draw his two DC-17 heavy blaster pistols from their hip holsters and fire them at the two clones closest to Arya, hitting both of them in their faceplates and killing them instantly.

This action was all the warning that Arya and Tarfful needed, the huge Wookiee roaring loudly while he unsheathed his ryyk blade and slicing a trooper's head off and pulling his bowcaster one handed and shooting another trooper in the chest, blasting him a good ten meters away. Arya quickly activated her green lightsaber in a reverse grip and rushed past another five clones while spinning her blade in a complicated corkscrew pattern that ended with all of them dead on the ground in multiple pieces. She then pulled her own DC-17 heavy blaster and shot two more troopers.

Blitz quickly rushed to Arya's side and brought his custom scatter blaster to bear and fired it four times in rapid succession, taking out six clones before covering her with his heavy Katarn MKIII armor to block a hail of blaster bolts that were about to hit her. While Blitz was blocking the blaster bolts Jester turned his DC-17m rifle on the group of troopers firing on him and fired a single anti-armor grenade at them, killing all ten of them. Ghost pulled his Trandoshan ACP repeater from his hip and fired a full auto volley at another large group of troopers. The charged particles tore through their armor like it was paper all eight of them went down quickly.

Arya turned toward where another group of four troopers were lining up their shots and threw her lightsaber at them. Using the Force she controlled the flying blade and cut them to pieces. Tracyn quickly turned his pistols on the last three troopers and unloaded a large volley on them, taking them all down.

"Tarfful, we need to get to the Talyn and get off this rock now, before command pulls their heads out of their collective shebs and figures out what happened here." Tracyn said urgently to his friend. Tarfful growled lowly in agreement.

The young Twi'lek was shocked by what had just happened but trusted the ARC Trooper enough to do as he said. "I don't understand Tracyn. What's happening? Why did my troopers attack me?" Arya asked as they headed off, still confused about the whole situation.

"Order 66 came just down from the Supreme Chancellor. That's what's happening." Tracyn explained. "It's a contingency order that can be enacted by the Chancellor if the Jedi officers are acting against the Republic. It orders all GAR commanders and troopers to remove all of the Jedi officers with lethal force. We chose to go against those orders because even if you had anything to do with whatever happened on Coruscant with the Chancellor, we don't care and will protect you. You have our loyalty General, not the Republic." Tracyn said before continuing. "Now we really need to get going."

Arya nodded her head, her lekku shivering slightly because of what she had just heard. The six friends, now fugitives, started going quickly through the ruined city trying to get to Tracyn's hidden ship.

Ghost suddenly held up a closed fist, signaling his companions to stop. He made a few hand gestures to signal them to hide. The wreckers all unslung their DC-17m blaster rifles and quickly changed them to the sniper configuration, Tarfful also unslung his bowcaster and all of them looked down their scopes. "A small squad of scout troopers about two-hundred meters away." Ghost relayed, the rest of the team responded in acknowledgement. "I have the sergeant, all of you take the rest. In 3.2.1." Commandos and Wookiee squeezed their triggers and fired at the clones. They all went down before they even knew what happened.

The group quickly went to where the dead troopers were. "I have to check into something." Ghost said as he picked up one of the trooper helmets and used the electronics inside to mask his com signal while he hacked into the local GAR network to find out if command knew anything about the decision not to execute their Jedi officer. He switched through several channels before he heard something that made him worry and swear for a completely different reason.

"Command this is Sergeant Fi from the 215th attack battalion. We've found an unidentified ship near grid thirty-five. It's not one of ours, or a Sep ship, we're going to investigate. Could use a bit of backup in case there are hostiles onboard." "Roger Sergeant, sending a squad of troopers to your location, ETA approximately twenty minutes."

Ghost disconnected from the GAR channel turned to his brothers and friends. "We are about to be in deep osik Vode." Ghost said to his brothers. "Some shabla smart White Job found our ship and called for reinforcements to help investigate it." He reported. "Those reinforcements should be at the ship in about twenty minutes." Tracyn swore before pulling out his hollow map. Activating it he studied it for a few moments before showing it to everyone else. This is where we are, and this is where my ship is. We can get there in fifteen if we hustle." He explained.

The group all looked to where Tracyn was pointing on his map and nodded. They quickly took off and moved as fast as they could while still staying hidden. They made their way toward the area on the map and found the ship in less than fifteen minutes. Tracyn kept his Deece in sniper mode and checked through the scope. "Shab. Looks like that first squad is trying to get into my ship." He said angrily as he counted off the troopers. He quickly switched to another personal encrypted comm. channel. "Zee, there are eight troopers trying to access the ship. Don't try to stop them and stay hidden, I'll take care of them." He said to his Astromech droid and got a beeping response.

The Clones all used their rifles to check out the situation before they made a quick plan. Tracyn, Blitz and Ghost all got their DC-17m's ready in sniper configuration, and Tarfful readied his Bowcater. Jester pulled his large LJ-50 Concussion Rifle off his back and Arya pulled the silver hilt of her lightsaber and the two stealthily made their way towards the ship. They had done this kind of thing many times during the war so it came with practiced ease. Arya snuck up behind one of the clones and waited for a count of five before activating her lightsaber and decapitating him. At the exact moment this happened Tracyn, Blitz, Ghost and Tarfful took out their targets and Jester fired his LJ-50 at the remaining three clones and killing them with the concussive energy blast.

Everyone quickly holstered their weapons as they ran up to the back of the Talyn. Tracyn quickly unlocked the ship everyone boarded the Kom'rk Class Fighter.

"Zee, come out. We took care of them." Tracyn said as his black Astromech droid, R2-Z4 came out of his hiding spot. "Zee, go to the engine room and get them warmed up. Escape plan Vhipir." Tracyn said as he strapped himself into the pilots seat and began activating the ships systems while Arya got into the co-pilots seat and Tarfful followed Ghost and Zeefore to the engine room. Jester and Blitz both strapped themselves into extra seats as the ship's engines started to hum.

"Tracyn, we've got company. It looks like that other squad of troopers just showed up." Blitz said as he checked the external cameras and saw the ten new troopers advancing on the Talyn with blaster rifles drawn. "Too late for them to stop us now Ner Vod." Tracyn said as he activated the external defense cannon. The blaster cannon popped out of its hidden compartment and fired at the clone troopers. A few of them were hit and killed while the rest scattered.

"Let's get the haran off of this rock." Tracyn said as his ship took off. He took the control yoke and flew the Talyn directly out of the atmosphere away from the Republic fleet in orbit around Mygeeto. Once they had exited the atmosphere they were hailed by one of the Venator-class Star Destroyers that was orbiting the planet. "Unidentified ship, we do not recognize your transponder code as a friendly vessel. Power down your engines, heave to and prepare to be boarded." Came an angry sounding voice from the capitol ship.

"Yeah, that's not gonna happen." Arya said as she deactivated the comm systems and started up the nav-computer to make the jump to hyperspace. "We've got trouble." Tracyn said as he checked the ship sensors. "Looks like they've launched fighters to intercept us, ARC-170's. How long before the computer calculates the jump General?" He asked as he saw the 3 ARC-170 fighters heading their direction. "Too long. We're going to have to fight them off." Arya said as Tracyn activated the in-ship comms.

"Tarfful, Ghost, we're about to have some company. Full power to shields and prepare for evasive maneuvers." Tracyn got an affirmative growl in response from the huge Wookiee. He activated the assault blaster cannons on the Talyn and took evasive actions. As the ARC-170's strafed by them, blue blaster bolts flying past, Tracyn pulled on the control yoke and forced his ship into a steep climbing loop that got him directly behind the three fighters. He concentrated on the closest fighter and opened fire, hitting its rear shields and collapsing them under the full-auto fire of the two assault blaster cannons and destroying the ship and causing the other two to take their own evasive actions.

As Tracyn continued his evasive flying neither he nor the other two fighters could get a good shot at each other. "Hurry up with those coordinates General, we need to get out of here before this party gets too crowded." Jester urged the Jedi. "Got it. We're ready to go so hit the hyperdrive." Arya said as Tracyn started to push the controls forward. "Wait Tracyn, there's a special anomaly just ahead of us. I don't know if it's safe to go into hyperspace." Jester said, checking the ships sensors. "Well it's sure as shab isn't getting any safer around here Ner Vod. Gotta risk the jump." Tracyn said as he pushed the hyperdrive throttle fully forward.

Just as the Talyn was about to enter hyperspace one of the fighters fired a proton torpedo at the Kom'rk Class fighter and struck it just before it entered hyperspace, collapsing the shields and throwing it off course. The anomaly from the sensors suddenly opened up into a large hole in space and the Talyn disappeared.

END PROLOGUE